Funny Story, I Got Bnr Stage 3's For 300 Dollars
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So I went on this long adventure down from columbus, ohio to maryland to sell my FC, to virginia to pick up my motor, and to NC to get the shell.
Once in virginia, the guy I got my parts from (his name is fritz flynn from rx7club) he offered me this BNR stage 2 turbo for 300 bucks. Said the manifold needed a bit of work but he'd let me have em for that much. I said ok fine sure whatever, we were doing this at 5 am because we'd been driving all night and he woke up early to come meet us as we were headed to NC to get the shell.
Well I get it back home, get it to a friend of mine at the rx-7 store (his name is mike, so NOT xavier or jason working on my whip) and he put my wiring harness back on for me. Low and behold we go to put the y pipe on the turbos and it won't fit. Kept checking it out and were wondering well why the hell won't it mate up? I called brian down at BNR and he said that the stock y-pipe should fit fine on a stage 2. I described it to him and what not and he said "ha that's not a stage 2, it's a stage 3. It needs to have the y-pipe modified in order to fit on there." Mike and I both looked at each other and started laughing. After all the hassle i went through to get this car back up here and together, at least SOMETHING nice happened. We checked the turbos out completely, and everything else is fine. Even the manifold isn't as thrashed as I thought it was, just a couple hair line things that needed touching up.
So, for 300 bucks, I got a $2600+ turbo. Yeah.... I need to get some more things now.
Once in virginia, the guy I got my parts from (his name is fritz flynn from rx7club) he offered me this BNR stage 2 turbo for 300 bucks. Said the manifold needed a bit of work but he'd let me have em for that much. I said ok fine sure whatever, we were doing this at 5 am because we'd been driving all night and he woke up early to come meet us as we were headed to NC to get the shell.
Well I get it back home, get it to a friend of mine at the rx-7 store (his name is mike, so NOT xavier or jason working on my whip) and he put my wiring harness back on for me. Low and behold we go to put the y pipe on the turbos and it won't fit. Kept checking it out and were wondering well why the hell won't it mate up? I called brian down at BNR and he said that the stock y-pipe should fit fine on a stage 2. I described it to him and what not and he said "ha that's not a stage 2, it's a stage 3. It needs to have the y-pipe modified in order to fit on there." Mike and I both looked at each other and started laughing. After all the hassle i went through to get this car back up here and together, at least SOMETHING nice happened. We checked the turbos out completely, and everything else is fine. Even the manifold isn't as thrashed as I thought it was, just a couple hair line things that needed touching up.
So, for 300 bucks, I got a $2600+ turbo. Yeah.... I need to get some more things now.
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